Thanks for all the encouraging words. I swear I wasn't fishing for compliments... My good friend and trusted advisor JJ gave me the best advice over the past week, and I'll be putting it into practice soon. She pointed out that there are many things in need of critiquing, and she's right. I'll get into specifics later, but suffice it to say she sounds smarter than my summary, and is.
I wanted to return to blogging with an answer to sooo many questions, most especially "why did Jesus have to die?" The hot, Italian-food loving, hairdresser wife and I were at our favorite Italian chain restaurant this week, Bravo! (we love you, Chelsea), when she discovered a newsletter on the ground next to her car. It was Tony Alamo's World Newsletter. His followers regularly plaster cars in the SW United States. There is a letter on the front page from a believer in Ghana. The hhw quickly discovered the answer to sooo many question in her reading of the letter. It reads:
Dear Pastor, I am sending you greetings from all the way in Ghana. I am very excited to tell you that I have at last accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and that He came and died on the cross, after reading through your literature entitled, The Messiah.
Apparently, according to Ghananian sources, Jesus read Tony Alamo's literature and decided to die on the cross. You can sympathize, right? You understand that the guy who came to take on himself the sins of the world sees the future and it's full of Tony Alamos and James Dobsons and Benny Hinns and he just says "fuck it, I'd rather open some veins." In the quest for metaphysical answers, that's one down.
I found one of those on the car at the movies this weekend. I browsed it for a few and couldn't believe the crap he was pushing. I just want to know where I can get one of those cool jackets that he makes for all the Hollywood celebrities?
Posted by: jvpastor | June 04, 2008 at 08:55 AM
He used to sell them online until the IRS got him for not filing taxes for that "ministry."
Posted by: greg | June 04, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Wow, Alamo's own website looks like a bad National Enquirer spoof. I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't a parody!
Posted by: Chris_from_Alaska | June 04, 2008 at 11:33 AM
they must be everywhere! we got two (not just one) on our car at the mall the other day. how lucky are we?
Posted by: Amanda Fortney | June 04, 2008 at 02:10 PM